Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has stated that the APC-led
Senate has betrayed its pre-election promises by blocking the passage of
Bill No. 3, which would have granted devolution of powers to the
states.
The APC chieftain described the decision as shocking and saddening in a statement released from his media office on Thursday.
Atiku, also said that he was “shocked by some so-called progressives’ visceral and cynical opposition to restructuring”.
He decried the reluctance of democratically elected lawmakers to
remove “the insidious structural impediments to development, which
decades of military rule had hoisted upon our nation.”
He said, “instead of building the foundations for a true federation, a
small group of so-called progressive Senators decided to stick with the
new party line, pretending they didn’t know what restructuring was all
about, and that even if they knew, it couldn’t be done.
“I think this is disingenuous and I think it is a sad day for our
party. But I’m confident the APC will learn the right lesson from this
self-inflicted defeat, and remember the mission and mandate given to us
by the people.”
“Let me be clear: Restructuring is no panacea to all our nation’s
problems. But devolving resources and responsibilities from an
overbearing, unresponsive, and ineffective federal government to the
states is the first step we must make if we are serious about putting
our nation back on track, and our people back to work,” he said.
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